:)
I wonder if this WARLORDOFTEXAS idiot is still lingering to see what happens....
I am amazed he hasnt been zotted yet.
"LAX police: Taser use on 78-year-old was justified"
By Ian Gregor
Daily Breeze
"LAX officials said Thursday that an airport police sergeant was justified in shocking an elderly man with a Taser last weekend because the man was combative, made threats and resisted officers' attempts to subdue him using less drastic means.
But Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss, a vocal critic of the airport police department, claims the episode exposes a lack of civilian oversight of the LAX force. Top airport officials, he said, weren't aware of the incident details on Thursday, five days after it occurred.
The incident began at 1:30 p.m. Saturday when a 78-year-old white male, whom airport officials would not identify, walked into the lobby of the LAX police station on 96th Street east of the airfield to retrieve an impounded car, according to an airport media statement. Police would not release it to him because his registration was expired.
The man, who airport officials said was fit and strong for his age, became angry and began to argue with officers and make threats, and ignored commands to stop moving toward them.
A sergeant applied the Taser after warning the man he would be shocked and after the man ignored verbal attempts to calm him and restrain him. Police held the man to prevent him from falling to the ground and then called paramedics, who transported him to a hospital.
The 6-foot-1, 170-pound Lancaster resident was released to a relative. Police intend to pursue misdemeanor criminal charges against him for disturbing the peace and resisting an officer.
The airport agency will conduct two reviews of the incident before determining whether the officer acted appropriately, officials said. It was witnessed by two civilians in the station lobby and was partially captured on video, they said.
Weiss said he did not know enough about the incident to comment on whether he thought the use of force was justified. But he said he was disturbed that the civilians who run the airport told him Thursday they weren't familiar with the details of what happened.
"We frankly have precious little in civilian oversight of use of force and that's not acceptable," Weiss said. "That's not consistent with the best practices at modern police departments"..."